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of this p6': t, after au atlon of au hour and a half, 3i ships and barks, bound for Trieste, aMong which were 6 . p . na1l armed Vessels who convOyedthe others. Many were killed and wounded on both sides, a's the battle was very obstinate." PRAGUE, AUG. t 1.-our Gazette of to-day con tains the following article : " His Royal Highness the Archduke CHARLES resigned, on the 31st July, the command of the Austrian army, which has been accepted by the Ge neral of Cavalry Prince JOHN of LICHTENSTEIN. [This is followed by the Articles of the Armistice, concluded on the 12th of July, in the camp before Znaym.] The following is the order of the day by which the Archduke CHARLES' notified to the army his re signation of the command i❑ chief. " ZITTAU, JULY 3 i .—Very important reasons have induced me to request his Majesty to accept my resignation of command of the army entrust ed to me. I yesterday received his consent, and at the same time his orders, to transfer the chief corn mand to the General of Cavalry Prince of LICHTEN-• STEIN. ‘‘ While I leave the army I take the most lively interest in its fate. The perfea conviaion I have of its bravery, the confidence I place in it, and thecon- gam habit of dedicating my exertions to its servi,ce, under this separation, indescribably painful, I flatter inyself that it participates in, and returns this senti- ment. (Signed) " CHARLES." VrnNkA, AUG. 6.-- 7 ,Atnong other points whiCh are to serve - as the basis of peace, and which ars now negociating, One is, that the Emperor Fume:crs Shall cede the Kingdom of Bohemia to his eldest brother, the Duke of Wurzburg. AUG. 9, --The intelligence th at t h e Archduke CHARLES has resigned the command of the army, bas made a great imprkssion on the public : he pos sessed the, love and confidence of the soldiers in a very high degree. It is understood that the Armistice has been pro icinged for 28 days. WiutsAw, At:G. 14.—The French Ambassador to the Court of Persia, GARDANNE has proceeded from hence, for the "'much head quarters, by tile, way of Cracow. Thursday her MAJESTY held a public breakfast at rogrnore Lodge, when most o f the 'N o bility an d Gentry attendecL His Royal Highness the Duke of litttriiswicK paid her MAJESTY a visit, and atte r - Wards attended the King at Windsor Palace. The Staffordshire Band were present, and played seve ral approved martial airs in the gardens. Yesterday morning his MAJESTY, the Dukelof CLIMBER LAND, and Princess AuGustA, accompanied by Lord ARDEN, Lady ELY, General FITZROY, and Colonel TAYLOR, rode in Windsor Park, and at twelve o'clock returned to the Palace. The Princess SOPHIA took an airing in one of her MAJESTY'S carriages yesterday ; and we are happy to announce that her - Royal Highness is in a fair way of recovering from her indisposition. It is expeeled that to-morrow the Duke of, Bayttswrcit will walk with their MAJESTIES on Windsor Terrace, should the weather pro v e tine, and Much fashionable company is expected to arrive there on the occasion. The principal locket, station at Flushing, on the left, was 300 yards in advance of the mortar bat tery, and within half musket shot of the enemy's picrinets., From this station four hundred rockets were fired, each containing more combustible mat ter than the largest carcass th rown f rom t h e mor tars. Th e other stations, which were in the centre, in front of General HOUSTON'S Brigade, were also as near a s near as possible to the enemy's picquets. Of 800 'rockets expended, there were • not more than 20 which did not enter. the .town. , These were fired before the range was exactly ascertain tained ; and, as was the case also with some of the shells in the first instance, they fell upon the rain- Parts and glacis. Excepting those few, there was not a rocket fired which did not go into the body of the town; and such was the effea produced by them, that General MONNE. a6tually remonstrated with Lord CHATHAM upon the unfairness and in humanity of rasing such a weapon, asserting that all nations ought to be upon a par in the means of war fare. To this he was answered, that, as it had never • been considered any violation of the laws of war to burn towns besieged, it must. be immaterial by what means that objet was accomplished. The following is an extra& of a private letter re ceived by the last conveyance from Lisbon : Since the accounts have been received here of the movements of the British from Talavera, and thejunction of the French troops under the command of Generals Soult, Vitior, and Scbastiani, all the disposable British and' Portuguese troops in Portugal are hourly marching to join Sir Arthur Wellesley.---? A - plentiful supply of provisions are daily following., and I have no doubt my next will convey the pleas ing intelligence of offensive operations on the part of ele British General, who has nothing to fear in his present situation." A bet of a very singular nature originated at Der by during the races. S. S. Esq. a gentlem a n well known up on th e turf, leas engaged to produce a man by next October N ewmar k et Meeting, to crack 250 nuts in three minutes, one by one with his teeth, and that they shall be cracked in such a manner as wilt with facility admit them to be taken from the sheik. The bet is for 2,f)0 guineas. The person s mentioned to perform this piece of jaw-ivork is a native Of Leicestershire, residing not far from Ashby de4a-Zouch. Betting is sto 4 against time. This morning, at teu o'clock, the Loan MAYOR and the Sheriffs went in state from the Mansion house, to proclaim tarcholomew Fair. icAVAL EW, r v ., • I LYMOVI-I{, Ai le. 30.---'His Majesty's schoon e r 'Novi is appointed convoy to the Eastward. AUG. 31.---Arri'ved the Mar y , Wallas, froth London ; the Britannia cutter from Corunna, Lis bon, and Oporto, with dispatches, which were land - - ed at Falmouth : left at Corunna his Majesty's Ships Indefatigable and rirethus' a ; at Lisbon, the Mild Boar and 14 . aurflus, and a' great number 'of trans ports : she sailed from thence for Oporto on the 3d July, the same day his Nlajesty's ship Bar leur sail ed.; and the Comas sloop of War also sailed, ,with a large fleet of transports, for England. The Britan nia arrived at Oporto on the 12th instant, and sailed thence for England on the following day ; left there his Majesty's ship Symmetry. Came down the harbour, and anchored in Caw sand bay, his Majesty's ship Aliford, of 4 guns, Captain BAYNT'JM. Sailed, the Cossack sloop of war, for Cadiz, she bad on board the Spanish General CASTRO; the :Teazel hired schooner, with a convoy to the West ward, consisting of transports and merchantmen ; they were joined off this port by a convoy from Fal mouth ; the Humber, hired armed ship, is also off the port, with a convoy froth the Eastward. Sailed, the sloop Union Packet, CLELLAR ; the Greek ship St. Anne, UNTANASCO LUCIJIERE, mas ter; the French schooner L' Albertene, from Guade loupe, to Bourdeaux, with coffee and sugar, captured by his Majesty's ship Virginie, Captain BRACE ; the ship Frankland, ANDERSON ; and the sloop Mary, ELottEcx, to the Eastward. Arrived, the Mary and Elizaleth, FOOT ; 311 d Flora ; LAvzs, from London. Sailed, the Lyra, gun brig, with a fleet of vietual lers, for the Rochefort squadran. Went up the harbour to be repaired his Majesty's ship York, of 74 guns. SHEERNESS, Ave. 31.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Nanzur from Flushing with 680 French pri soners on board ; great many very sickly. The A mur is ordered to return again with water and pro. visions for the fleet. Capt. JONES, who so hand somely volunteered the services of that ship (though then the flag ship at the Nom) to carry troops on the Expedition, is now indefatigable in getting the provisions and water on board to return. SEPT. 1.-Arrived the Opossum from Flushing. Went out of harbour the Beaver. VALMOUTN, AUG. 30.—Sailed the Mermaid fri gate with a fleet for Quebec ; and the Humber armed ship, with a fleet for the Downs; Seaflower sloop of war, with the Tiger transport, for Corun na. Prince qf Wales packet for Lisbon ; Sidfolk, for St. Thomas's; and Britannia, SEIVELL, for Trinidad ; and Llan Romney, DAWSON. for Ja maica. DEAL, SEPT. 1.-Arrived, his Majesty's ship Co quette,•*ith a fleet from Quebec, which arc sailed for the river. Sailed the bnicorn frigate, to Sheerness. P. S. Arrived the Hardy gun-brig, with upwards of go sail of transports, with the whole of the cavalry on board, from Flushing. The transports with the Dragoons and Horse . Artillery, are just arrived here. General GROSVE san, has just lauded, and is setting off for London in a chaise. YARMOUTH, AUG. 3 I.—An Austrian Courier was landed yesterday from the Earl pf Leicester Packet; left Prague the sth of August, and states the Em peror of Austria to have joined the army ; that the Archduke CHARLES has resigned, and that Prince JOHN of Lichtenstein is Commander in Chief ; that the Armistice was expeBed to be broken every day by a declaration of war: --The Austrians very strong. BUONAPAR TE was at Sclioenbrun on the 4th. • -. • PORTS:KAUTZ', SSTT. I.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Weymouth, from the Downs ; and Serapis and Amethyst, from the Eastward; Brothers, —; Speedy, Aldridge ; So. phia, Bell ; Anna. farmin ; Twilight, Swaddle ; Dorset, Hart ; Dove, Grey ; Friend, Schatt • Friendskip, Warner, from the Downs, Prince of Wales, S'inith; Wiliam, Hall ; Nathaniel, Laing; Mary, Beniots; Betsey. Melvern ; Ann, Baring, from Sunderland; 1 3rough, Paitson, from New castle. Sailed his Majesty's frigate the Niohe, with a few ships, for the West I t idi es ; his Majesty' s b r i g f asper, for Oporto, with a convoy ; Patriot, Bayley ; Salby. 'Green, ditto • his Majesty's ship Surveillante, for a cruize; ' Maria , Wad en . burgh. for Petershurgh ; Hen nec k , Sliektnan, for London ; Ann, Gales, for Newcastle ; Twee Cesasters, Dreif, for He ligoland; Elizabeth, lenson, for London; Twee Gebroders, Gardels, for London. GREt:NocK, AUG. 30.---The Swift, MILLER, ar rived here fro:n Shediack, New Brunswick; left loading the Queen of Naples, SPENCE, for Leith, to sail in three days after ; and the 2Eaus, FOSTER, for London, about half loaded. On the 21st ult. off Cape North, spoke the brig John, from Newcastle, and a brig from Campbleton, name unknown, both bound for PiFlou, all well. Arrived here, the Americap ship Mork and Ali gail ; spoke, on the 6th instant, in lat. 44. 30. lo ng . 48. 30. the ship Vermont, NICHOLL, froth Botter dam, bound to New-York, out twenty days ; and, on the 24th, s poke the ship R em i ttance, LAW, from Liverpool, bound to.New-York, had met with a se vere gale and split her sails, and intended putting into Luchryin to repair. ,~ '}~ .fllrl i~~LL t~h ~~, -( NEw YORK, AUG. 2.—Mr. Coles, the Meszeng er to France, in the Syren, pased through this - city yesterday morning . , on his wa . yr,o the city,pf Wash-. ington. The Celerity with which Mr. Coles tra velled, .has led to the.opinion that he it the bearer of important dispatches froth. France.. Added to this, we understand that at the time of liis 'departure fOr France, it was hi's intention, in case the .state of:Our affairs would perthit, to remain in that country two or three years. His sudden return, therefore, does not augur favourably to the hopes of a.good under standing with the French Government. Several late letters concur in alluding to the probability:of Mr. Armstrong's speedy return honie. .:Every 'infer matibn from France increases in hostility to this country. A recent letter from Paris positively states that Mr. Armstrong's luggage was a ottrally shipped on board the Mentor, and that he wag to embark immediately. The French Government, .it is said, Will give facility and safely to our commerce on no Other terms than our withdrawing froth all connec tion with Great Britain. The American property in France, it is apprehended, will be sacrificed the moment Mr. Armstrong withdraws from the coun try. To what a deplorable, humiliating condition are we reduced ! At the approaching meeting of the Heads of Departments, it will fortunately hap pen that the Cabinet is in possession of very late dis patches from France as well as England. They will be presented with a whole view of thk.., existing state of our foreign relations. NEW YORK, AUG. 3.—The Mayor of this City - has issued a Proclamation, interdicting, under heavy penalties, intercourse with the inhabitants of B rack lyn, on account 'Of the prevalence there of a pesti lential or infe63ions disease. 'Mr. Erskine, the British Minister, arrived at WaShington on Friday last. The Syren, Captain Gordon, which btought Mr. Coles, the Messenger, sailed from L'Orietit the 14th June. The dispatches from Mr. Armstrong are said to be of an unfavourable nature. -There is some doubt of Mr. Jackson's meeting with a welcome reception at Washington. It is said that Buonaparte, suspeeting Mr Jackson to. have been concerned in a conspiracy against him, gave notice to the Powers of Europe some years since, that he should consider the acknowledgement of that Gentleman in a diplomatic chara&er, as a de claration of war against him; and it would seem this is' now thrown ont to deter the President from receiving the new Minister. Trusting to the pro verbial politeness of Mr. Madison, we are confident that even if Mr. Jackson presents himself in a ques tionable shape, he will speak to him. NEW YORK, JULY 29.—Christophe, the Presi dent of Hayti, on the Ist of July issued a General Order, in which he details a vietory he had obtained about the middle of June, over the army of his competitor, who had assembled the whole of his disposable force before Maribas. General David Trois, who commanded the troops of Petion, was Icilled in the engagement. Petion himself narrowly escaped. (FROM THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL.) " The mask is now off, and every silly expecta tion of redress from British Justice is defeated. No more do we hear it urged, that Mr. Jeffersan could have settled amicably trine mouths ago. The dupes who gave into this dodrine now perceive they are entrapped, and acknowledge :that perfidy which we . have so long and so' unavailingly predided., But months, perhaps years, of embarrassment must atone lor'their credulity and precipitation. Britain is now supplied---she is no longer dependent—her hungry traffic, once destitute of the, means of support, and her extended navy, once in want of stores, has now a temporary supply. Will we indulge a hope, from the unanimity which seems to prevail, that there ate yet measures of vengeance in store for us that may reach the vitals of the common enemy of mankind? Every eye that we meet is marked with contrition, or glistens with resentment. England is apparently w i t h ou t an ad vocate. There are indeed those who lisp something like palliation for her conduct. The Editor of the Evening Post, who has for sonie years been . the con stant and unceasing 'apologist for England, has al= ready laboured through three long E4Says, under the title .of " The case fairly and • &tinily COnsidered," to convince the nation, that if Mr. Erskine has ex ceeded his orders, the• Ministry of England are not bound by his ads. " There is scarce an ideot in creation, who would for a moment believe that the British Ambassador had surpassed his instructions. No, itt worse than perfidy that can thus misrepresent it. He dared' not contravene them ; be could not have miscon ceived them; the proposition was specific and defi nite—" Remove your Non-intercourse, and we will remove our Orders in Council." This is a subjeEt on which there can be no ambiguity ; it is clear and., distind as the sun at noon day. • Nay, Government, it is said, have seen Mr. Erskine's instructions.-- Time after time, assurances have been given by that; Minister, that his arrangements would be finally ad hered to, whatever might occur previous to their: passage to England.• Can there be any doUbt of his instructions, when, after promulgating the new Or ders in Council, issued in April, and which excited a degree of alarm, Mr. Erskine still persisted in the declaration, that the preliminary arrangement would' be ratified when known? . Stupid, ignorant, or . iniquitous must he be, who can answer affirmatively. From the commencement of our controversy with England, to the present moment, we have been fixed in a belief,• that nothing but a stedfast and vigorous opposition to her tyranny, by• every Means of retaliation in our power, would in duce her to respect our rights.--Convinced of a predetermined hostility to our , commeree-of a ; rooted enmity to our prosperity, growing out of our revolutionary struggle—of her alarms-at , our increas ing strength, which threatens, and will one day overwhelm her northern colonies, we have not fail ed on every occasion to dire& the attention of the people to each new outrage committed by her agents. Because we have been thus sedulous in awakening a just jealousy towards England, we have been charged ny the minions of England with a predilection for France, although in every remark relative to foreign nations, we have preserved the most scrupulous.im partiality, except where the interest of our own • country mingled in the discussion. W,e have . - Vith- E out hetitatiQn; and without reserye, cleclariAi in fa. ~. r .~1-~ .~~i,. . • Ir otir of the Jefrersonian haze tiered to the measure o f restriiB6, ‘whieV,, hat. been pursued for thre , ..l loii;J } er, wo!..Yd have; avt.. - 11, the nation. • - • ~;• . , It would have taught the , enems of our try to. liten to our complaints —to resiie.it our righ Li; -or to fear our resentment, • `e Alan ! what wholesome policyvva.i.ahancioned in the very moment of its fruitioo. The i - paligi,ty of party drove the timid ItepreS'entative fr,,n) his post, and the credulity.of the public listened to de lusive taleS, told by Britith peri2roners and par tizans." SPORTIAG LVTELIDGENCL'. NORTEIAMPTON RACES, TUESDAY, Ac.:, 2:9, The Gentlenlan's Purse of . 50L foi 3-yr olds. Mr. Boltbee's b. f. by Sorcerer Mr. Andrew's b. f. Canadia - - Sweepstakes of logs. each for all ages. (7 Subscribers., Mr. Andrew's b. it. ('horn, 6 Yrs old Mr. Rush's Kneebuckie - - (broke do - 'nl WEDNESbAir.—No Race tOr tl'e,:own Pate. The Poney Race was vton by Mr. Odell'sb. in. At twd' heats, 1 i ::: 2 A General Couri Martial has been held at bill, on Lieutenant, LEwts HELIIIOi,D; of the 2ti Light Infantry battalion of the King's German . gion, :upon the folloWing charges, viz. " For abuse of authority and improper interf: rence,%vith an officer's guard at Lo Sarca in Spain, in cruel! v a:tl repeat,- edly striking, without provocation, private Abraham, and the Acting Serje;int, Corporal Hoffirian, of the zd Eight hart:L_ lion of the King's German Legion , both on guard, and th ree r _ ening to put Eu s ig n •D ena k e, the Oificer on guard, under In., rest. 2d.- For behaviour uubccoming the cnarit:ter of an Officer and a Gentleman towards Ensign ft, dcrn,M of the isc Light Battalion of the - King's German Legion, on board a transport returning front Spaip, and in making use of il;an dalous language to the said Ensign fle.le.ruan, without anv • provocation, repeatedly striking him, and afterwards endea vc tiring tb provoke him to fight tduel." The Court found the Prisoner guilty of the crimes laid to his charge, and adjudged him to. be cashiered ; but considered it incumbent on them to recommend to his Majesty's notice the long services of the Prisoner, and his apparent distrac=ted state of mind when he committed the last crime charged against him; which sentence his Majesty has ►beep pleased to conhrtn, Whereby Lieutenant Lewis Efehnoid is adjudged to be cashiered. The Commander in Chief has therefore directed, that the charges ahove-rnea- 7 tinned, together with the sentence of the Court, and his Majesty's confirmation thereon, shall be read at the head of every regiment. As the statue of the Comic Muse, at C ovent ' Garden Theatre, however satisfaCtory to connois seurs we admire the pure taste of antiquity, is not understood by the generality of .people in this coun try, it is to undergo some alteration, in order to adapt it more to the' national sentiments. It therefore been inclosed again. This conformity- to the public taste is laudable on the part of the Pro prietors, and we rely on the judgment of ElAxtqAt, while he renders his work more popular, to ad here still to the chaste simplicity of the antique. It was with some humour said by a Gentleman, in answer to the objeetion,that the figure of COMEDY, at Covent-Garden, was too grave, that it was Sen timental Comedic. The poor Swiss Republic, like that of Holland, is it seems destined to endure one of BUONAPARTE r :i upstart race of Kings. The violation of the heredi tary feelings of people, in both instances, who have been devoted to Republican notions must be classed among the wanton cruelties which have distinguish ed the character of the CorsiCan Tyrant. The only consolbtiOn is, that when he drops into the grave, an event ardently desired by every friend to the human race, all his- initikiti - s" will sink into their original obscurity. -Indeed it is very probable that this sense of the .instability of 'their elevation, would have tempted some of those minions to decline such ho nours, if"they dared oppose the wtlfbf their relent less master. To FARMERS—A traveller, in passing froth Lond on through Windsor, Reading, Newbury,MarlhOrou g h, Caine, and Chippenham, to Bath, . was extremely surprised to see no corn hooded during thii rainy season. In Staffordshire, and the surrounding-coun ties, when the wheat is cut in shocks or sheaves, they place them against each Other to season' iitthe field, in the same manner as is observed in these.parts of the kingdom; but; in rainy weather, or:iia any hut the most settled tine. weather, they spread offen two sheaves of corn, and place them with the ears down wards over the heads or tops Of othersheaves, and by which means these two upper most sheaves be come, as it were, .a thatching or complete shield . against the weather, to all • the under ones. This thq call hooding the corn ; and .a most eicellent plan it is, and it would be extremely useful and valu able to gentlemen farmers during the prc.sent unfor tunate wet weather. Lest the two uppermost . sheaves should be blown off by the wind, they fasten them together very firmly, by entwining a smalt handful of the corn of each sheaf with each .other, and-giving it a.twist, Which the slightest experience will be sufficient to teach any one who is inclined to,bJnefit, by the above praaice. The accident which occurred near Northumber land House : on Thursday evening, has no t b een so unfortunate . as first represented. The coach and horses belonged to Mr. Seymour, who made every inquiry to ameliorate the condition of the sufferer!". It was found, that the - fruit-woman had her leg bloke, but is in a fair.w . ay of recovery. The other vvoutni that was hurt rs able to quit the hospital, and the two boys have only received slight contusiofis. No per son's life was lost, as first imagined. Mr. Jeremiah Curtis, the brother of SicWilliarn,,was in the coach, but escaped unhurt. The riopie that .was killed was worth 501. and the other is so much injured as to be rendered useless, The coachman, wbo has driven for the Proprietor upwards of 17. years, is, a sober and sedate tuan ? and is unable to account for the fright of the horses, which were ever before gentle and tradable. Mrs. Plunket underwent a second examination on the chafge of forgery yesterday, at Marlborough street Police Otce, but? by the order of Mr. Nares, the Magistrate, the -examination was private.— Mrs. P. was again liberated, on bail being given for her appearance at another examinatio n . _ _ • :Married, on Thursday last, :it Newcastle, Star. fordshire, ROBERT WI LLIMSISON, Esq. of Liverpool, to ANNE,. daUgh!er of TRW' NE KINNELM4fSY, E:qq, of the forrnex - place.